Same as always, slowly the sun was rising, filling the world with light, as it concealed the darkness of night behind and as always it didn't have any effect on the darkness inside the living creatures.
Three young ladies were flying toward a forest in front of them. The young lady at the front was holding a big white scallop seashell about the same size as her in her hand. She has pink eyes and hair, and there was a white line from the outer corner of her left eye to the center of her nose bridge all the way to her outer corner of right eye. There were also a few scratches over her face and blood on top. The two ladies following her have white hair and black eyes, they also had cuts on their hands.
Behind them an old man along with eleven men were chasing after them. All of them were wearing blue robes.
"I am telling you, hand over the seashell and we will let you all live."
"Your highness, you go first. Both of us will hold them for a while." Young behind the one who was caring for the seashell said.
"Yes, Your highness."
"Don't be a fool, do you think you can stop all of them all by yourself." The young lady with the seashell continued, "It won't take that old man to finish you and attack me, It's better if we fight them together. Wait a minute, let me see if there's any safe place around." Saying that she closed her eyes while continuing flying forward toward the forest.
She could no longer see the view in front of her, but she was seeing the view inside the forest. It was as if her eyes came out of her face and moved inside the forest. Soon she saw a cave behind a waterfall, its front door was covered with the flow of water coming from the up.
She reopened her eyes, "Both of you, Increase your speed and follow me."
Soon all three of them suddenly increased their speed, except the old man, all eleven men following them behind lost them. They kept flying toward the direction they went.
"I'm telling you, give me the seashell. No matter how fast you fly, you won't be able to escape me." Old man shouted.
Ignoring him, they continued flying forward, reaching above the waterfall where the cave was located, they went down. Following them the old man also went down, "You two hold him off, I will come back soon."
"Yes, Your highness."
"Yes, Your highness."
Young lady with a seashell went near the waterfall. She moved her left hand pointing at the center of the waterfall that was covering the entry of the cave. And soon a path for her created at the center, walking forward above the water she went inside the cave.
The old man came down on the ground, "Where did your master run off?"
Hearing the old man, two ladies standing there looked at each other and nodded their heads. And then they looked at the old man, both made posture as if they were wielding a sword in their right hands. In a moment glowing blue swords appeared in each of their hands, with the swords in their hands they rushed toward the old man.
"You two really think you can defeat me?"
"Well, there's no loss in trying."
Reaching near him they attacked him from the front. Both of their swords' edges were moving forward toward the shoulder of the old man. "I told you not to waste my time." Old man moved both of his hands and held the edge of their swords with his palms. They couldn't move their sword as if it was stuck between hard rock.
Both ladies quickly opened their hands from which they were wielding the swords. As the sword was made of their energy, it disappeared as soon as they left swords and moved back.
"See, you can't even damage the skin of my palms, and you think you can defeat me." Old man pretended as if he stopped their swords attack with his bare hand, but he had transparent gloves in both of his hands.
Young lady came out of the cave, "Step back! You two handle remaining unwanted guests coming here."
"Yes, your highness." Without any second thought they both flew up to fight against the eleven men from the old man's ground coming there.
"Huh! Do you think those will be able to stop my eleven men?"
"We will see about that, and don't worry it won't take me long to finish you then they won't be alone."
"You surely take me lightly do-" He was still talking but the young lady in front of him rushed toward him and attacked his face with her right fist. "Boom!" A shock wave created surrounding them as the old man blocked her attack using both of his hands, trees near them broke in half. The old glove was torn apart, a crack was formed in his Occult orb and with the force of her fist he flew away back and collided with the rock behind him.
Vomiting blood he started thinking, 'Thanks to these gloves I survived, but what do I do now? I have to attack fast, I don't think I can survi-' As he moved his left hand to wipe the blood on his mouth, "Aaa….!" He cried out, he felt a pain climbing up his hand breaking down bones in the way. Within seconds both of his hands broke and got loose as he no longer had control over them, not only that, his cracked Occult orb also broke.
*Occult Orb - It is a star-shaped crystal, located on the opposite side of one's heart. Its color represents the magical energy it possesses. Like if someone has fire energy, the color of Occult Orb would be light orange to deep red depending how powerful his fire energy is. *
He started sweating after he was no longer able to move his hand, and as his Occult Orb shattered, he no longer can use his magical energy. A sword appeared in the young lady's right hand as she slowly approached him, "Please…Please don't kill me. Yes… don't you have questions like who sent me here, I will tell you everything. So…please don't kill m-."
She swung the sword and sliced his neck, blood started to flow out of his neck. His eyes moved down as he tried hard to move his broken hands to block the blood flow. Wiping the blood that shattered on her face she walked away from there.
"Tsk! I thought he was strong, without any reason I wasted my time running away. It looks like my opponent doesn't have any idea about how strong I am, well that's a good thing for me."
After defeating the old man when she was about to fly up to help, the two young ladies already came down. "They were too weak, your highness."
"Is that so?"
"Yes."
"Well, that's good. You two guard the here I will go inside."
Standing in front of the seashell, 'where should I go now? They already have information about my child being inside the seashell.'
After a few minutes, the upper part of the seashell rises up as the seashell opens.
She slowly walked toward the seashell, inside it a child about a year old with his eyes closed sleeping inside the lower part of the seashell. He was naked so it was easy to say it was a boy. His body was wet with the liquid present inside the seashell.
With eyes filled with tears, she moved toward the seashell, "My child! Finally, you came back to this world." She murmurs with a soft painful voice as her legs keep moving forward the seashell.
The child turned and looked at the young lady coming toward him. Knowing she was his mother he smiled with happiness. As she saw a smile on his face, all the questions appearing inside her mind disappeared. She bent down near the seashell, with her pink eyes filled with tears of joy, she looked toward the child.
With her soft voice she continued, "You don't how worried I am. Taking care of me for two years by transferring my energy into the seashell was worth it."
Going closer to the child, she puts her hand on the right side of his face. Feeling the warm touch of her hand, the child slowly opened his eyes. Same as the lady touching his face, his iris was also in pick in color.
Slowly the young lady picked him up in her arms, in her arms the child smiled with his toothless mouth. She held the child in her left arm, as she opened the palm of her right hand out of thin air a small piece of white cotton cloth appeared in her hand. She wiped his body with the cloth and as he no longer wet in the liquid of the seashell, she took out another piece of white cotton cloth and covered it around his body.
But before they could have spent a little bit more time, soon a young lady came running inside the cave, "Your highness, they are coming closer. We have to leave quickly."
"I wished I could watch you grow in front of my eyes, but it seems that heaven is not on my side as always. I can't even spend the first few hours with you." With a soft voice the young lady holding the child in her arms said.
"Let's get out of here." All of them came out of the cave. Looking at her subordinates' puzzled faces as they saw the child, "I know you two have lots of questions, I will explain it later first let's head back to the palace."
Three of them along with the child and the seashell flew out of the cave and soon left the forest. "You two wait here, and if they come here try to hold them for a while I will come back soon." Lady with the child in her hand said to the other two.
"Yes, your highness."
"Yes, your highness."
Both of them stood in the air, while the lady with the child moved away from there.